IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 238715 accession number: C.52-2023 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 17 September 2019 updated: Monday 4 September 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Two tiles of white earthenware and one of buff earthenware, slip coated and painted underglaze with near-identical versions of De Morgan’s ‘BBB’ design: a blue and mulberry palmette/carnation and green leaves on a cream ground. object type: Tin-glazed earthenware tiles; slip-coated and decorated underglaze. title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lent by Rita Smythe LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Smythe creditline: Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/238715 SUBJECTS ------------------- carnation carnation TECHNIQUES ---------- hand-moulded tiles, slip-coated, painted underglaze moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1872 - 1888 creation date earliest: 1872 creation date latest: 1888 culture: 19th Century, Late# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: William De Morgan & Co. CITATIONS -------- William De Morgan The Designs of William De Morgan Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 William De Morgan Tiles ---